Jon Jost

An experimental sketch that came about while Jon Jost was teaching at Italy’s National Film School. He strolled through the San Lorenzo ...

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a ...

Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. ...

Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean’s lives are thrown into chaos when their ...

“PRIMARIES is a simple film which merely establishes a definition of ‘politics’. Its narrative moves in paragraph blocks, with ...

A homage to nature and a plea for a careful approach to it. In one of his early films, Jon Jost shows impressions of a stream in the forest and a ...

“A silent perusal of the Grand Canyon, morning to night, from a single, fixed camera position, by means of constant dissolves spaced a few ...

Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse, ...

A parable of the missteps of life enacted in the hothouse world of late 1980’s New York, in which the art market and the stock market each ...

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over ...